You may take lengthy minutes selecting the perfect words for your blog, but in the long run, research suggests you could be better off investing that time into choosing images. In this episode of Stay Paid, we share five ways you can use images to raise your blog’s click-through rate, increase the time visitors spend reading your articles, boost social sharing, and improve readers’ retention. Join us to discover how many images you should include, and where you should place them, to get better results; the must-have image you need to include in every blog and how to optimize its effect; and AI and more traditional tools that will help you create blog images, pictures for social media posts, and videos. ? Let us help you get more referrals and repeat business! Visit the home of Stay Paid at remindermedia.com to explore the world's best marketing, and download a FREE SAMPLE of the gold standard in personally branded magazines. Connect | Resources Blogs ·      11 Blog Images: Best Practices for Adding Great Pictures to Every Post (from Orbit Media) ·      Understanding Copyright: How to Safely Incorporate Internet Images into Your Marketing Tools ·      InVideo: creates videos from text ·      Giphy: grab animated .gif files ·      Meme Generator (free version) ·      Pexels and Unspash: Free images You can get free resources, including e-books, printables, and lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library.   0:00     Introduction 0:57     Blogging trends 3:53     Impact of images 3:47     #1: Use as many images as possible     5:42     #2: Use charts and graphs 6:48     #3: Include faces in every post 9:25     #4: Place quotes over images 9:59     #5: Embed videos into your blog 13:12   Bonus tips 15:09   Action Item   Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing   Best Practices for Using Images in Your Content